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Chocolate is perceived to be different things at different times, including a sweet treat, a luxury product, a consumer good and a mood enhancer. [166] Its reputation as a mood enhancer is driven in part by marketing. [167] Chocolate is a popular metaphor for the black racial category, [168] and has connotations of sexuality. [169]
Chocolate is a Spanish loanword, first recorded in English in 1604, [1] and in Spanish in 1579. [2] However, the word's origins beyond this are contentious. [3] Despite a popular belief that chocolate derives from the Nahuatl word chocolatl, early texts documenting the Nahuatl word for chocolate drink use a different term, cacahuatl, meaning "cacao water".
Milk chocolate is 51% carbohydrates, 38% fat, 8% protein, and 2% water (table). In a reference amount of 100 grams (3.5 oz), milk chocolate supplies 565 calories of food energy, and is a rich source (20% or more of the Daily Value, DV) of vitamin B12 (31% DV), riboflavin (25% DV), and dietary minerals, such as phosphorus (30% DV) (table
This rosy-hued chocolate is the newest chocolate to hit the block since the 1930s invention of white chocolate. First developed in late 2017, ruby chocolate comes from ruby cacao beans, which are ...
Instead, she suggests looking at chocolate as a “sweet treat” that is a small part of an overall healthy diet. Dr. Thomas Vidic, MD, a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), agrees.
Chocolate eggs, bunnies, or figurines are also made by most manufacturers during Easter and Christmas. Most of the chocolate produced is milk chocolate, followed by dark and white chocolate. Chocolate specialties like ganache and praline/gianduja are often used for filled tablets, combinations bars, truffles and pralines. In addition to being ...
Take note of the streetlights when strolling Chocolate Avenue in Hershey, Pennsylvania: More than 100 are shaped like Hershey's Kisses, wrapped and unwrapped. Installed in 1963, they were designed ...
Dark chocolate without added sweetener is known as bitter chocolate, unsweetened chocolate, plain chocolate, or 100% chocolate. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Dark chocolate has a higher cocoa percentage than white chocolate , milk chocolate , and semisweet chocolate .